News headlines for “Human Rights Issues”, page 1764
RIGHTS-US: Indefinite Detention Case to Test Obama's Pledges
- Inter Press Service
In what promises to be the first major test of the Barack Obama administration's new approach to the rule of law, the Supreme Court will soon hear what could be one of the most consequential cases in U.S. history.
BURMA: Ban's Visit Inane Unless Prisoners Are Freed
- Inter Press Service
A United Nations special envoy ended his seventh visit to Burma this week facing a tall order: secure freedom for some 2,100 political prisoners in the military-ruled country as preliminary to meaningful political reform.
SRI LANKA: Tamils Fearful For the Future
- Inter Press Service
As Sri Lanka celebrate 61 years of independence from British colonial rule on Wednesday, the enthusiasm is understandably not shared by minority Tamils living under the military jackboot in the north of the country.
Q&A: 'Internet Should Not Build Firewalls of Hate'
- Inter Press Service
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, one of the world’s leading human rights activists, is often heard on the subject of hate. He is an international authority on issues related to digital hate over the Internet.
RIGHTS: ICC Investigating Israel War Crimes Charges
- Inter Press Service
The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague announced a preliminary investigation Tuesday into whether Israel committed war crimes during the recent Gaza war, following the Palestinian National Authority's (PNA) move to recognise the ICC's authority in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
U.S.: More Troops, More Worries, Less Consensus on Afghanistan
- Inter Press Service
Even as U.S. President Barack Obama prepares to deploy more military forces to Afghanistan - what he has called 'the central front' in former President George W. Bush's 'global war on terror' - a consensus on overall U.S. strategy there remains elusive.
COLOMBIA: One More Day's Delay for Civilian Hostages
- Inter Press Service
Alan Jara, the former governor of the central province of Meta, was released by Colombian guerrillas on Tuesday, instead of Monday as originally scheduled. Former regional lawmaker for the western province of Valle del Cauca, Sigifredo López, was scheduled to have been freed on Wednesday, but his handover has now been postponed until Thursday.
RIGHTS-US: Racist Ideology Permeates Anti-Immigrant Lobby
- Inter Press Service
The Southern Poverty Law Centre (SPLC) said Tuesday that its research has connected three mainstream U.S. anti-immigration groups to racist ideas.
MIDEAST: Gaza Reemerging From the Ashes
- Inter Press Service
The United Nations is urgently appealing for 613 million dollars to aid more than a million desperate civilians in the ruins of Gaza, where schools, hospitals, houses, factories and even farmland were obliterated during the three-week assault by Israeli air and ground forces.
RIGHTS-US: Study Challenges Claims of Gitmo Recidivism
- Inter Press Service
A prominent law professor says the U.S. Defence Department is issuing questionable data on the number of Guantanamo detainees who have been released 'and then returned to the battlefield' because the government 'is now in a position where they have to find some bad guys - even if they have to invent them by naming people who were never there'.
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